Rights of a Roman citizen; "pater familias" and "patria potestas"
(patriarchial dominion over persons and things); mode of contract; status; Imperium
("police powers"); Law of Rome - public and private; non-citizen Law of Nations;
Law of Obligations (delict or torts.)

Res nullius; first possessor by right of occupancy; specific acts manifesting
appropriation; mode of acquisition; Blackstone; Locke; "state of nature";
proprietary rights; private ownership through mixture of labor with object; protection of
property as a fundamental purpose of government.

Wild animals; transitory ownership in "ferae naturae - propter privilegium";
the right of hunting and fishery as an aspect of land ownership ("ratione
soli";) acquiring property or "take" of an individual animal by occupancy
and possession.

Creation of the "Royal Forest" on the basis of sovereign dominion; regulation
as an aspect of the severability of hunting rights for separate grant; "foris" -
exclusion from the common law; Magna Carta; the Forest Charter and forest law.

"Trusts"; alienability and purpresture; "Commons"; Common piscary -
fishery and fishing rights; several, free and common fishery; relationship of fishery to
land ownership; Common right of free navigation;

Franchise - "public" privilege vs. a monopoly; chartered municipalities;
chartered joint-stock trade corporations; the colony of Virginia as a franchise venture;
private/public law - the right to regulate property as relates to a franchise and the
right to regulate private property.

To Part IV - Regulation and the police
powers; Fifth Amendment "Takings"

To Part V - Federal Territorial
Legislative Jurisdiction; Public Lands

[It should be noted that the author is not an attorney. The comments presented are the
author's opinion and should not be construed in any manner as legal advice or counsel.
Concepts presented are intended for discussion purposes only. Full text of Supreme Court
decisions may be located though "FindLaw" on the Internet. ]